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Treacherous black ice created chaos on city streets Sunday — including a backlog of hundreds of 911 calls and nearly 60 MTA bus crashes — but rather than address the crisis, City Hall simply blamed the weatherman.

As many as 600 emergency callers were put on hold early in the day as the ice sent pedestrians and drivers slipping and sliding over sidewalks and roads, an FDNY spokesman said.

“We haven’t seen it this bad since Hurricane Sandy,” a source said.

The NYPD responded to a total of 1,800 calls in the city between 7 a.m. and 7:30 p.m., a nearly fourfold increase over the 400 to 500 calls that cops normally get.

The increase was attributed to slip and falls — and to vehicle collisions, none of them were serious.

The ice formed between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. as rain hit the freezing pavement, Accuweather reported.

G.N. MillerRoads turned into a bumper-car arcade, prompting ambulances from New Jersey to Suffolk County, LI, to rush here to help out.

G.N. MillerThe MTA said 59 city buses were involved in city smashups, leaving officials to temporarily suspend service in The Bronx.

But Mayor de Blasio remained out of sight until an unrelated press conference in Brooklyn at 5:30 p.m.

Even then, he refused to take reporters’ questions.

None of his emergency-management aides addressed the public amid the weather onslaught, either.

Asked about the issue, mayoral spokesman Phil Walzak said in an e-mail, “The National Weather Service issued [a] notice CANCELING the freezing rain alert for this morning.

“It came at 3:45 a.m. and was the last notice we have from them.”

The alert said temperatures would be above freezing when rains hit — but the National Weather Service’s New York Twitter account put out repeated messages about freezing rain before and soon after 3:45 a.m., as did other agencies monitoring Mother Nature.

Walzak did not say why there were no public briefings on the weather.

The city said it had 250 spreaders salting roads since midnight, with Sanitation workers on overtime.

But drivers were incensed about the icy conditions.

“That’s bulls- -t,” said motorist Diego Rodriguez, 29, whose car was totaled on I-95 in The Bronx. “If they had salted enough throughout the night, the majority of the accidents today wouldn’t have happened.”

Trucker Randy Smith, 32, said his rig caused a 17-car pileup on the Bruckner Expressway in The Bronx as he was trying to slow down for a small curve and crashed into the median.

He, too, said he didn’t think the road was salted.

“They weren’t keeping up with the weather to make sure something like this would happen,” he said. “They only came after the accident and put down salt… Once I got out of the truck, it was like you were ice-skating.”

In addition to the Bruckner nightmare, there was a 25-car pileup on the Cross Island Parkway in Queens and a 15-car pileup on The Cross Bronx Expressway.

A prominent Staten Island Rabbi was killed when another driver smashed into his car while he was driving to a convention in Maryland, reports said.

David Winiarz, 49, who called himself the Facebook Rabbi, was killed when the Honda CR-V he was in crashed into another vehicle at about 8:10 a.m., according to The Baltimore Sun.

Of the 59 bus accidents, 19 each were in Brooklyn and The Bronx, 16 were in Queens, three on Staten Island and two in Manhattan.

Eight riders were hurt, as well as two bus drivers.

Officials said that First Deputy Mayor Anthony Shorris briefed de Blasio on the situation in the early morning and that the mayor told city agencies to take all necessary steps.